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Article: Economic Reformer Simitis Triumphs in Greece; Party Is Projected to Govern With Slightly Fewer Seats Than It Had Under Papandreou
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- The Washington Post
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- September 23, 1996
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The party of Prime Minister Costas Simitis of Greece swept to
victory in national elections today, according to exit polls and
early returns, securing his position as the political heir of the
late Andreas Papandreou.
With one-third of the vote counted, Simitis's Panhellenic
Socialist Party, known as Pasok, had 41.8 percent and the
conservative opposition New Democracy Party about 38.7 percent. It
was not clear how many seats Pasok would have in the 300-seat
Parliament, although it appeared it would be less than the current
170 seats garnered in 1993 under Papandreou, who died in June at age
77.
"The verdict of the Greek people shows . . . which kind of
society they want to fight ...